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The Kalava Movement by Vikram The Apple structure built through Sanjay Mhatre’s Cracking the Arora - Kalava is usually tied on the mesh-like appearance is Code is an interactive installation wrists or holy banyan trees as a a way attempted by the artist where the QR codes on cubes religious ritual in Hinduism. The Vinita Mistry’s Birth of Life Swapnil Godase to portray the unravels the elements of nature in pictures urge viewers to take combines the chakras and the transparency and immediate Mumbai and the nature of Mumbai action against deforestation by five elements of nature and effects a fruit brings upon a human itself. raising awareness. depicts the principles inside a body. human form.

Aadidaivik by Hemangini Bali, IIFD , depicts nature as the healer. In this piece of art the spiritual being (Aatma) is trapped Ankita Saigal’s installation ‘They within his physical body. The pure Surrendered’ depicted the sacrifice is trying to escape the impure. of greenery to pave the way for development and it’s impact on environment.

Embodying National Unity by Kalpavriksha by Anam Zatkal, ‘Rawness is Riches’ by Ruchi Modern Trojan by Vivan Sagar Kokate is an installation Priyanka Parekh, Parshav Sheth, Shethis about defying our walking- Sanghvi, Samvit Bhanot, tanvi that embodies our national unity. Radha Kamdar, Ritika Narang, talking heads and embracing Patel, Damini Gudhka, Akshita It is the Indian map, and the Saniya Sachdeva, and Tanay our ever-knowing intuitive heart It’s Ok to Slow Down by Munawar Sabarwal, Aditi Vyas, Shivani demographics are portrayed Verma depicts a metaphorical and portraying the rawness of Sharfi – The intention of the Bhatia is a take on the tale of through water as the element of representation of the mystical Yin (Feminine Energy) & Yang installation is to provoke the souls The Trojan Horse. nature. Kalpavriksha Tree. (Masculine Energy). to create their own story with their own perspectives.

Displaced by Ritu Dhillon shows the mass displacement, migration and war. The trees sprouting out of a male torso depicts the crazy THE BIGGEST ART FESTIVAL AND world we live in. Where things don’t make sense. WHY YOU SHOULD GO

Footprint in Marathi/Taach by Janhavi Mhatre, Krishna Jani, Kshitij Mahashabde, Rakshita Jain, Saloni Agarwal, Shikha Patel and Vishal Rohira shows that the human spirit never gives up.

Shri. Sanjay Mhatre honoring Runwal Group the host of HTKGAF Reloaded by way of an artistic projection of the grand elevation of Runwal Elegante.

umbaikars received Hindustan Times Kala MGhoda Art Festival (HTKGAF) Reloaded at Runwal Elegante, Lokhandwala, Andheri (W) with a lot of enthusiasm over its first weekend. The line up of programs planned by Hindustan Times kept the public engaged for hours at a Shri. Shreehari Bhosale sculpting the spirit of the art stretch. Some of the interesting acts happened festival of in the form of the Kala Ghoda. Hetal Shukla’s Paradox of on 17 February included projection painting Paradise plays with green color of A breakthrough of a Thescape nature and green color of military. Spirit by Sunny Mistry depicts a of Runwal Elegante by Sanjay Mhatre, an The acts by these artists weren’t the only highlights HTKGAF Reloaded at Runwal Elegante is artist with 21 years of experience, ‘The Spirit of the HTKGAF Reloaded at Runwal Elegante there scheduled to end on 25 February 2018 and the It asks us to ponder to be a co-existence between bodily scape nationalist or a naturalist. and the natural spirit of nature of Kala Ghoda’ depicted by famous sculpture were a series of workshops like pottery, calligraphy, activity line up is even more eventful over the and urges to capture it before it artist Shreehari Bhosale followed by a beautiful origami, mural paintings, bangle making, tattoo last few days of the one of its kind art festival in disappears. musical performance by Shuaib Ahmad, making and caricatures to name a few. the . Nishikant Panda, Minhaj Hasmat and Himanshu Mishra of Arz. The event of 18 February started with a charcoal artist, Shri S K Tayade illustrating his mastery on stage. Internationally famous sand artist, Nitish Bharti depicted colors of in his mesmerizing sand art display. When we asked him about his inspiration Nitish Bharti said “I believe in telling a story in each and every stroke thus imparting a message through my every creation.” Mural and Graffiti artist who Ka-la Ghoda by Indrajit Prasad has already adorned a lot of walls in Mumbai, captures the spirit of living in Lay Chinchpure created a beautiful painting on a city like Mumbai in terms of stage. Sagar Gupta who debuted in the music language, geography, and natural industry with his single “Pehli Dafaa” with environment. The concept of the T-Series put up a great musical show to wrap > Bangle making workshop in progress work is to engage in the festive up on Sunday evening. enchanting girls and ladies. mood of the city.

Navin Agarwal’s Prakariti shows Mother Nature at her flamboyant best. The red face represents fire. Her tresses represent air, the blue depicts water, the black & white portrays various layers of the earth. > Shri S K Tayade illustrating a live painting for the > The four-member team of Arz creating magic with > Shri Nitish Bharti one the finalist of India’s Got audience on stage. their music. Talent showing various regions of India. Shreehari Bhosale’s is a “five elements tree” urges us to not follow the path of destruction for scientific excellence.

The Adventure Called Youth by Face of Nature by Alumni of MIT The Inception of Life by team at Swapnil Ghodseis a quasi-realistic Institute of Design depicts the Priyank Rangparia’s work ‘The I am that I am by Purva Pandit L S Raheja School of Architecture representation of the endurance duality of nature using contrasting Elemental Earth’ has a metal world show a Tree of Life with glass This installation depicts how man and perseverance exuberated by facial expressions. One face map put together using automobile mirrors on its branches. It’s on a is connected to the five elements Human Nature by Ketan Mehta an individual, either it may be a depicting Raudra, the destructive scrap parts, thus upcycling and quote by George Bernard Show of nature and how man has been depicts how humans are trying to physical or mental task. The quality, side of nature and Saumya the giving purpose to the scrap - “You use a glass mirror to see misusing these. It urges us to kill the natural habitat and urges as well as quantity of work, marks other face, the caring side of elements, which are otherwise your face; you use works of art to re-look at our habits before we humans not to kill trees, save and the adventure of youth. nature. considered useless. see your soul.” have done irreversible damage. grow as many as we can.